The first recorded killer gale in this area was that of August 1725. The exact date fluctuates from the 24 to the 27 but old documents indicate that Le Chameau, a French ship, went down with 316...
Number of days into 2019 that SNC-Lavalin scandal broke,
following story in The Globe and Mail: 38
Number of years prior to that date that SNC-Lavalin was charged with
corruption and fraud over its business dealings...
In 1842 Father Jean-Baptiste Maranda continued as pastor for the parish of Isle Madame. In 1844 Arichat was officially designated as the seat of the diocese. This meant that the new Notre Dame church became a cathedral...
Here it is again, the season of bouquets of flowers and brunches, sappy cards and macaroni necklaces. It’s Mother’s Day week.
This annual celebration is the appropriate occasion for me to admit that my feelings on motherhood have evolved with...
Strange what makes us feel sad and old.
Did you hear that Toys ‘R Us is shutting down its operations? It’s closing or selling its 740 stores in the United States, as well as giving up its international operations, Canada...
It may have been the final day of Celtic Colours 2017, but on the second Saturday afternoon in October, it felt like the music was just getting started.
We gathered at the Evergreen Seniors Club in Port Hawkesbury for one...
What with the dazzling number of storm days in the last few weeks, it’s high time to offer my list of favourite storm day activities. Sure, I am an adult and storm days, for me, mean working from home,...
I will always be nostalgic about Halloween. Now that my kids aren’t little kids anymore, I don’t have costumes to shop for and faces to paint. Most of my piles of decorations stay in bins in the basement. It...
Businesses close all the time.
Here in the Strait area, that was a regular occurrence after the economic down-turn of the early 1990s; when fish plants closed, businesses shuttered, and young people and families...
Let’s go back to 2013 when our provincial government,
in partnership with numerous stakeholders, created the Parks and Protected
Areas Plan. It was an inspired document, identifying huge tracts of land which
were ripe for formal protection either as wilderness...